stock quote retrieval via yahoo finance

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stock quote retrieval via yahoo finance

I am trying to make my console application fetch stock quotes from yahoo finance so I can do calculations with that data. I have been looking on the internet been have not been able to find anything out there. Does anyone have any suggestions for me.

More specific of what i would like to do.

this website has all the stuff needed to get quote data via internet explorer. What I would like to do is have my program call internet explorer so to speak use the url with stock symbol to retrieve the data I need and put it into a variable in my program.. Hope that makes things a little more clear.

- post your code
- post your analysis of the problem
-- does it compile - if not, what error messages
-- does it run
-- does it crash - if it does, what error messages
-- does it connect - if not, what error messages
-- does it fetch any data at all - is it correctly formatted or junk

okay found a tutorial on winsock but stuck on the above code. I assume this is where I request the information from ther server.. Below is an example of getting the stock quote in the browser..http://finance.yahoo.com/d/quotes.cs...SFT&f=snd1l1yr
but how do I incorporate this into the header request? I assume that is where I put the information I want.. Looked for info on HTTP protocol but I don't believe I found anything that helped...